-Newsclick.in Earlier, the Government stopped the release of the NSSO report on unemployment for 2017-18 and the sixth Labour Bureau annual employment-unemployment survey. Both showed an unprecedented rise in job losses. New Delhi: For the third time, the Narendra Modi Government has stopped the release of Government data on jobs created in the country before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The Indian Express reported on March 14, 2019 that a survey by the...

-The Hindu Business Line In the last 5 years, 14,034 ryots from the State — 8 a day — have killed themselves Pune: In the last five years (2014-18), Maharashtra saw 14,034 farmers — that’s eight a day — end their lives. In fact, over 4,500 committed suicide after the State announced a ?34,000-crore loan waiver in June 2017. This information on farmer-suicides over the last five years has come to light from...

-Livemint.com India's economic power has become a much-quoted metric ahead of Elections 2019. We separate three myths from reality Now that we are officially in election season, one can expect a slew of report cards on the performance, economic and otherwise, of the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Government. However, it’s not that easy to gauge economic performance anymore. Not only are many official numbers under a cloud, over the past couple...

-The Hindu Justice Joseph cites information law as Government seeks to keep Rafale pricing details under wraps An all-out effort by the Government to claim privilege and push the Rafale jets’ pricing details back into the dark zone was met with a stoic counter from Justice K.M. Joseph in the Supreme Court on Thursday. The Government’s reasons to hush the Rafale prices ranged from national security to not upsetting a “solemn undertaking” given...

-The Hindu ‘Ensures transparency, checks misuse’ Electoral bonds have been introduced to promote transparency in funding and donation received by political parties, the Government told the Supreme Court on Thursday. “They [bonds] can be encashed by an eligible political party only through their accounts with authorised banks. The bonds do not have the name of the donor or the receiving political party and only carry unique hidden alphanumeric serial numbers as an in-built...